Jarvis Railway Station Canvas Print

Some buildings facing demolition in the name of progress end up being saved, often times after being re-located. The former railway station in Jarvis, Ontario, is one such building that was saved, moved and restored.

Originally built around 1907, the single-story station replaced an earlier two-storey station. It was considered a union station, as it served both the Great Western Railway and Hamilton & Northwestern Railway, two historic railway companies that operated in southern Ontario from the mid to late 1800s.

Both railway companies were taken over by the Grand Trunk Railway, which itself was taken over by Canadian National Railway in 1923.

A unique feature of the station was that it had operators bays at both the front and back of the building.

In 1996, CN abandoned the line, by then known as CN Cayuga Subdivision, and sold the aging station. The tracks, which hadn’t seen trains running along it for years, were removed.

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